Amazon knows every website you visit with Silk

Amazon announced several new devices today, ranging from a $79 eBook reader that uses electronic ink to a $199 tablet with a 7 inch IPS display called the Fire. One thing they talked about that immediately grabbed my attention was the web browser that comes preinstalled on Fire.

Its called Silk and its supposed to improve your browsing experience because it ties into Amazon cloud services, so it will be able to do things like compress images, text, that sort of stuff. This is not really anything new. The folks at Opera Software have been doing this since 2005 on mobile devices with Opera Mini.